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Poll: WOULD YOU BUY AN 8GB 290X @ £599

Would you buy one?

  • YES

    Votes: 19 6.7%

  • NO

    Votes: 266 93.3%
  • Total voters
    285
At the moment its not needed as peeps have said 4GB is still good for a while.

I just think there jumping on the GPU Vrm Band Wagon. + the price.

Dare say at some point 8gb will be needed.
 
Wedding vows should be changed

"Do you take this man with his Nvidia GPU to be your lawful wedded husbands" while wearing a green wedding dress.

"To love and honour his decision to upgrade his GPU whenever needed till death do you part" :D
 
Gregster said:
:D

Trade the Wife for another Titan.... Hmmmm :p
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I will show this to the wife - then post her reply - ban incoming :D

spankingtexan said:
Wedding vows should be changed

"Do you take this man with his Nvidia GPU to be your lawful wedded husbands" while wearing a green wedding dress.

"To love and honour his decision to upgrade his GPU whenever needed till death do you part" :D
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:D
 
spankingtexan said:
Wedding vows should be changed

"Do you take this man with his Nvidia GPU to be your lawful wedded husbands" while wearing a green wedding dress.

"To love and honour his decision to upgrade his GPU whenever needed till death do you part" :D
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Nice idea but it should go-

Do you take this man with his Computer to be your lawful wedded husbands" while wearing a green wedding dress.

"To love and honour his decision to upgrade his Computer whenever needed till death do you part.

So you can upgrade a part or do a new build when needed.:D
 
OLDPHART said:
Nice idea but it should go-

Do you take this man with his Computer to be your lawful wedded husbands" while wearing a green wedding dress.

"To love and honour his decision to upgrade his Computer whenever needed till death do you part.

So you can upgrade a part or do a new build when needed.:D
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Make sure someone video/record the vows as well, so it would form a legal binding verbal contract :D
 
When the 8800GTX launched it was in the in the mid £400's with the Ultra later on being in £500+, (I got mine after a price drop to around the £360 if I remember correctly). So if you factor in Inflation and the VAT rise high cards have probably abit cheaper. Example my launch day EVGA GTX 680 was £409 before discounts.

Titian’s are a bit different as they're not straight up aimed at gamers. Half the reason why the last couple of dual GPU cards was poor value (295x2, titian z, 7990, 6990, GTX 690) as there basically sticking the same chip on these cards as that's found in the single gpu version. The dual GPU version of the GTX 280 was 6 months later with a chip on a smaller node so the cost of building a card is much lower (simpler PCB, Cooler and so on).

That being said i do miss the days of the GeForce DDR being round £230 at launch. Sorry if the figures I’ve quoted are a little out, but I’m probably talking 10’s rather that 100’s out.

Now back to the OP’s question , No I wouldn’t I have no plans to go 4K as of yet even if I had the money, but if I seriously was considering 4K I would say yes most likely.
 
This should probably have been phrased/asked, If you were going 4K would you buy a 8GB 290X. No one under 4k would buy a 8gb card in their right mind.
 
Confused Stu said:
No. Too much of a price premium over the normal 290X to risk that I'd be limited by the VRAM before the card's been replaced by something newer, faster and cheaper.

That said, 8GB per GPU does sound like the kind of thing that would get the ladies flocking to my door..... :D
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Agreed +1 Id love to just try it out see how it does..
 
KillBoY_UK said:
When the 8800GTX launched it was in the in the mid £400's with the Ultra later on being in £500+, (I got mine after a price drop to around the £360 if I remember correctly). So if you factor in Inflation and the VAT rise high cards have probably abit cheaper. Example my launch day EVGA GTX 680 was £409 before discounts.

Titian’s are a bit different as they're not straight up aimed at gamers. Half the reason why the last couple of dual GPU cards was poor value (295x2, titian z, 7990, 6990, GTX 690) as there basically sticking the same chip on these cards as that's found in the single gpu version. The dual GPU version of the GTX 280 was 6 months later with a chip on a smaller node so the cost of building a card is much lower (simpler PCB, Cooler and so on).

That being said i do miss the days of the GeForce DDR being round £230 at launch. Sorry if the figures I’ve quoted are a little out, but I’m probably talking 10’s rather that 100’s out.
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Where as Tv's have got better and cheaper as the years have passed. High gpu prices are nothing but greed and maximising profits from both camps with Nvidia really taking the mickey.
 
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £599.99 inc VAT

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OcUK has a worldwide exclusive on the only 8GB 290X in existence, but this is not any 290X it's a highly fine tuned machine being the Vapor-X edition with near silent cooling solution. Running with a 1060MHz core clock and with memory clocked at 5600MHz makes this card absolutely perfect for a 4K setup, even more so with a pair or three of these in Crossfire. That means you could play games like Skyrim with expansion packs at 4k resolution and still not run out of VRAM.

Based on the award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture from AMD with 2816 Stream Processors, the SAPPHIRE R9 290X Vapor-X is an Overclocked edition which boasts 8GB of the latest GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz (5.60GB/s effective) and high speed engine clocks of 1060MHz.

SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking!

Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C, the product life span only decreases by 10%.

Along the edge of the card the PCB is extended and one of the copper layers left exposed. An additional heatsink mounted directly to this copper layer allows heat absorbed into the PCB from the GPU and other components to be transferred to the heatsink and cooled by the airflow. This feature alone can reduce core temperature by 2 degree C.

Specification:-
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1060MHz >
- Memory Speed: 5600Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 600W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 2yr


Only £599.99 inc VAT - WITH SIX FREE GAMES!!

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